Wer nicht bezahlt, inklusive hohe Geldbeträge auch aus dem Balkan, wie an Tom Ridge, Frank Wisner (Partner erneut Steinmeier) der Albaner Mafia, dem schickt man Terroristen und Kriminelle für Anschläge und Morde.
Neocon Arizona Republican Senator John McCain may have his own little Clinton Foundation pay-to-play scheme operating in the halls of the US Senate. The Daily Caller investigative group has learned that in 2012 McCain turned over nearly $9 million in unspent funds from his failed 2008 presidential campaign to a new foundation bearing his name, the McCain Institute for International Leadership.
Last fall, we spent a fair amount of time reading through John Podesta’s emails, courtesy of Wikileaks, and grew increasingly astonished with each passing day at the number of apparent conflicts of interest created by the Clinton Foundation which seemed to be nothing more than a front created for the Clintons to peddle their influence around the world in return for staggering „charitable“ donations.
Take, for example, our posts which questioned whether the CEO of Dow Chemical, Andrew Liveris, made very sizable contributions to the Clinton Foundation just so he could get an audience with then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to discuss his failed $9 billion joint venture with Kuwait. Here are a couple of posts which provide some background:
Or, there was that time that Hillary was offered $12 million from Moroccan King Mohammed VI just to host her annual „Clinton Global Initiative“ meeting in his country.
Now, an exclusive report on the „McCain Institute“ published earlier today from the Daily Caller (DC) has us wondering who else in Congress might just be running miniature Clinton Foundation-ish organizations and enriching their personal families in the process.
In addition to the ‚who’s who‘ of massive corporate donors (Chevron, Cisco, FedEx, Wal-Mart…), many of which were also large contributors to the Clinton Foundation, the McCain Institute counts many other more ‚questionable‘ donors, including Saudi Arabia, Teneo (Doug Band’s firm) and George Soros, among its largest.
As the DC points out, one such ‚questionable‘ donor that took interest in the McCain Institute was OCP, S.A., a Moroccan state-owned phosphate company. Ironically, OCP just happened to also be a „major sponsor“ of the Clinton Global Initiative where Bill was a featured speaker.
It accepted more than $100,000 from OCP, S.A., a Moroccan state-owned phosphate company operating in the Western Sahara, territory which Morocco seized in 1975. The North African country has since occupied the region by force in defiance of U.N. resolutions and legal declarations by other international bodies.
Morocco has come under criticism from human rights groups that the government violates basic human rights and that its state-owned companies subject its workforce to gruesome conditions while exploiting the disputed territory’s natural resources.
The Western Sahara holds half of the world’s phosphate reserves. Used to make fertilizer, phosphate is called Morocco’s “white gold.”
OCP also was a major sponsor of the CGI meeting, and Bill Clinton was the featured speaker.
EXCLUSIVE: Hillary Clinton’s ties to the MOB: How former Secretary of State met with Mafia heir at his pizzeria where he asked for father’s release from prison (in return for an offer she couldn’t refuse)
White House hopeful met Giovanni Gambino at a Charleston, SC pizzeria in 2007 during her previous presidential primary bid
Giovanni is the son of heroin kingpin Francesco ‚Ciccio‘ Gambino and cousin of Carlo Gambino, the boss of the notorious crime family
His father suggested Giovanni meet with Hillary to help him get out of prison
He made the face-to-face request and promised VOTES in return
Published: 17:05 GMT, 9 December 2015 | Updated: 07:15 GMT, 10 December 2015
Hillary Clintonmet with a Mafia heir who asked for his drug kingpin father to be released early from prison in exchange for votes, it has been revealed.
The former First Lady met Giovanni Gambino, the son of Francesco ‚Ciccio‘ Gambino and the cousin of Carlo Gambino – the boss of the notorious crime family and one-time head of the American Mafia – while she was campaigning in the the presidential primary in 2007.
The Democratic front runner spoke to the crime author, who recently made headlines for saying he would protect New York from ISIS, at one of his pizzerias in Charleston, South Carolina.
The 41-year-old’s father, who was serving a 30-year prison sentence at the time, suggested he contact Clinton to see if she could help with his early release through a presidential pardon.
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Hillary Clinton met Giovanni Gambino, the son of heroin kingpin Francesco ‚Ciccio‘ Gambino and the cousin of Carlo Gambino – the boss of the notorious crime family and one-time head of the American Mafia’s governing body – while campaigning for the the presidential election she failed to get into
Die deutsche Regierung, vor allem Westerwelle unterstütze den Regierungs Umsturz, mit der kriminellen Hillary Clinton (Partner des Gambino Clan) und der Naumann Stiftung.
Bechtel, Lockhed Martin, Boeing, Pharma und Zigaretten Konzerne schrecken nicht vor Mord zurück im Ausland, kaufen sich jeden Politiker, was als Lobby Consults getarnt ist, oder Hillary Clinton Stiftung, wo man von Regierungschefs, Geld erpresst.
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Kolumbien: Der US-Konzern Chiquita finanzierte rechte Paramilitärs
Von Jan Schwab, Bogotá
Container mit dem Logo des Chiquita-Konzerns im Hafen Almirante in Panama im Oktober 2002
Foto: /Alberto Lowe/REUTERS
Im Mai veröffentlichte interne Dokumente haben einmal mehr die Verstrickung des US-amerikanischen Konzerns Chiquita, des auf Anbau und Vertrieb von Bananen spezialisierten Nachfolgers der United Fruit Company, mit paramilitärischen Gruppen in Kolumbien bestätigt. An die Öffentlichkeit gebracht wurde das Material von der US-amerikanischen regierungsunabhängigen Plattform National Security Archive. Der Konzern hatte zuvor versucht, die Publikation juristisch zu unterbinden, war jedoch vor Gericht gescheitert. Die pikanten Inhalte der Dokumente könnten nun im Zuge des kolumbianischen Friedensprozesses zu einer weiteren strafrechtlichen Verfolgung der Verantwortlichen führen. Denn nachdem die US-amerikanischen Behörden den Sachverhalt jahrelang verschleiert hatten, sind nun erstmals die Namen der Drahtzieher bekanntgeworden.
Bereits 2007 war der Konzern vom Justizministerium der Vereinigten Staaten zu einer Strafzahlung von 25 Millionen US-Dollar verurteilt worden, da ihm nachgewiesen werden konnte, dass er über Jahrzehnte ultrarechte paramilitärische Gruppen in den kolumbianischen Departamentos (Bundesstaaten) Urabá und Magdalena finanziert hatte. Mehr als 1,7 Millionen US-Dollar sollen über die Chiquita-Tochtergesellschaft Banadex zwischen 1997 und 2004 in 100 Zahlungssätzen an die Paramilitärs geflossen sein. Das Gericht belangte jedoch nicht die mutmaßlichen 14 Verantwortlichen in Leitungspositionen des Konzerns, die die Finanzoperationen tätigten oder aktiv gedeckt hatten. Auch wurden den Opfern der infolge der Unterstützung erfolgten Massaker keine Reparationszahlungen zugestanden. Durch die Zuwendungen an die Paramilitärs hat sich Chiquita mitschuldig an der Ermordung von bis zu 4.000 Menschen gemacht. 60.000 Menschen wurden im Zeitraum, in dem die Geldzahlungen erfolgten, zudem vertrieben. Auch linke Guerillagruppen sollen vom Konzern Zahlungen erhalten haben, um die Wirtschaftsoperationen des Konzerns am Laufen zu halten…https://www.jungewelt.de/artikel/312147.sponsoren-des-terrors.html
Banana Giant’s Paramilitary Payoffs Detailed in Trove of Declassified Legal, Financial Documents
Evidence of Quid Pro Quo with Guerrilla, Paramilitary Groups Contradicts 2007 Plea Deal
Colombian Military Officials Encouraged, Facilitated Company’s Payments to Death Squads
More than 5,500 Pages of Chiquita Records Published Online by National Security Archive
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 340
Posted – April 7, 2011
By Michael Evans
For more information contact:
Michael Evans – 202/994-7029 or by email
The following PDF files contain the complete collection of Chiquita Papers received thus far from the Deparment of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, as received by the National Security Archive
Bogotá, Colombia, April 7, 2011 – Confidential internal memos from Chiquita Brands International reveal that the banana giant benefited from its payments to Colombian paramilitary and guerrilla groups, contradicting the company’s 2007 plea agreement with U.S. prosecutors, which claimed that the company had never received „any actual security services or actual security equipment in exchange for the payments.“ Chiquita had characterized the payments as „extortion.“
These documents are among thousands that Chiquita turned over to the U.S. Justice Department as part of a sentencing deal in which the company admitted to years of illegal payments to the paramilitary United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC)–a State Department-designated foreign terrorist organization–and agreed to pay a $25 million fine. The Archive has obtained more than 5,500 pages of Chiquita’s internal documents from the Justice Department under the Freedom of Information Act and is publishing the entire set online today. Key documents from the Chiquita Papers are included in the recently-published document collection, Colombia and the United States: Political Violence, Narcotics, and Human Rights, 1948-2010, now available as part of the Digital National Security Archive from ProQuest.
The documents provide evidence of mutually-beneficial „transactions“ between Chiquita’s Colombian subsidiaries and several illegal armed groups in Colombia and shed light on more than a decade of security-related payments to guerrillas, paramilitaries, Colombian security forces, and government-sponsored Convivir militia groups. The collection also details the company’s efforts to conceal the so-called „sensitive payments“ in the expense accounts of company managers and through other accounting tricks. The Justice Department investigation concluded that many of Chiquita’s payments to the AUC (also referred to as „Autodefensas“ in many of the documents) were made through legal Convivir organizations ostensibly overseen by the Colombian army.
New evidence indicating that Chiquita benefited from the illicit payments may increase the company’s exposure to lawsuits representing victims of Colombia’s illegal armed groups. The collection is the result of an Archive collaboration with George Washington University Law School’s International Human Rights and Public Justice Advocacy Clinics and has been used in support of a civil suit brought against Chiquita led by Earth Rights International on behalf of hundreds of Colombian victims of paramilitary violence.
„These extraordinary records are the most detailed account to date of the true cost of doing business in Colombia,“ said Michael Evans, director of the National Security Archive’s Colombia documentation project. „Chiquita’s apparent quid pro quo with guerrillas and paramilitaries responsible for countless killings belies the company’s 2007 plea deal with the Justice Department. What we still don’t know is why U.S. prosecutors overlooked what appears to be clear evidence that Chiquita benefited from these transactions.“
The company’s effort to conceal indications that it benefited from the payments is evident in a pair of legal memos from January 1994. The first of these indicates that leftist guerrillas provided security at some of Chiquita’s plantations. The general manager of Chiquita operations in Turbó told company attorneys that guerrillas were „used to supply security personnel at the various farms.“ A handwritten annotation on a subsequent draft of the document asks, „Why is this relevant?“ and, „Why is this being written?“ Throughout the document, lawyers have crossed out the word „transactions“–suggestive of a quid pro quo arrangement–and replaced it with the more neutral term „payments.“ Company accountants characterized the expenditures as „guerrilla extortion payments“ but recorded them in the books as „citizen security,“ according to these memos. (Note 1)
Another document shows that Chiquita also paid right-wing paramilitary forces for security services–including intelligence on guerrilla operations–after the AUC wrested control of the region from guerrillas in the mid-1990s. The March 2000 memo, written by Chiquita Senior Counsel Robert Thomas and based on a convesation with managers from Chiquita’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Banadex, indicate that Santa Marta-based paramilitaries formed a front company, Inversiones Manglar, to disguise „the real purpose of providing security.“ (Note 2)
Ostensibly an agricultural export business, Inversiones Manglar actually produced „info on guerrilla movements,“ according to the memo. Banadex officials told Thomas that „all other banana companies are contributing in Santa Marta“ and that Chiquita „should continue making the payments“ as they „can’t get the same level of support from the military.“
The Chiquita Papers also highlight the role of the Colombian military in pressuring the company to finance the AUC through the Convivir groups and in facilitating the illegal payments.
One indication of this is found in another document written by Thomas in September 2000 describing the 1997 meeting where notorious AUC leader Carlos Castaño first suggested to Banadex managers that they support a newly-established Convivir called La Tagua del Darien. According to the memo, the Banadex officials said that they had „no choice but to attend the meeting“ as „refusing to meet would antagonize the Colombia military, local and state govenment officials, and Autodefensas.“ (Note 3)
Among the officials most supportive of the Convivir groups during this time was Álvaro Uribe, then the governor of Antioquia, the hub of Chiquita’s operations in Colombia. Thomas‘ September 2000 memo notes that, „It was well-known at the time that senior officers of the Colombian military and the Governor of the Department of Antioquia were campaigning for the establishment of a Convivir organization in Uraba.“ A 1995 memo indicates that both Uribe and another politician, Alfonso Nuñez, received substantial donations from another of Chiquita’s Colombian subsidiaries, Compañía Frutera de Sevilla. Uribe was president of Colombia from 2002-2010.
The New Chiquita Papers: Secret Testimony and Internal Records Identify Banana Executives who Bankrolled Terror in Colombia
SEC Deposition Transcripts Detail Years of Payments to Colombian Paramilitary, Guerrilla Groups
Top Chiquita Exec: “Not Realistic” to Halt Colombia Operations over Guerrilla Payments
Posted April 24, 2017
National Security Archive Briefing Book No. 586
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The key that unlocks many of the mysteries of the Chiquita Papers is the secret testimony given by Kistinger and six other Chiquita officials during the SEC’s expansive bribery investigation. Through a relatively simple, if laborious, process of cross-referencing among the three sources, it is possible to identify almost all of the individuals whose names were scrubbed from the Factual Proffer, the SLC Report, and the SEC testimony—effectively stripping away the redactions that have shielded Chiquita personnel from scrutiny and that have helped guarantee impunity for individuals linked to the payments.
The records are the primary evidence behind a 2016 declaration (submitted by the author) identifying Chiquita “persons of interest” in the pending U.S. civil litigation. Those positively identified through this process include members of Chiquita’s board of directors, the corporate security team, regional and country operations managers with responsibility for Colombia, accountants and internal auditors, attorneys, and third-party bagmen who, over more than a decade, facilitated, negotiated, and delivered payments directly to guerrillas and paramilitary groups.
Premierminister Binali Yıldırım, Recep Erdogan ganz ordinäre Betrugs und Verbrecher Clans. Recep Erdogan und der Bin Laden Financier: Yassin Kadi, der auch Recep Erdogan finanziert vor 25 Jahren schon, die extremsten Terroristen und Verbrecher Kartelle, denn niemand kannte vor 30 Jahren einen Binali Yildirim, oder Recep Erdogan
Die AKP sollte Binali Yıldırım in ihrer Sitzung vom 22. Mai 2016 zum Präsidenten wählen. Wie wir bereits vor zwei Wochen angekündigt haben, sollte er sofort das Amt als Premierminister übernehmen.
Von der westlichen Presse als eine dem Präsident Erdoğan völlig ergebene Persönlichkeit dargestellt, ist er eigentlich eine Schlüsselfigur des aktuellen Mafia-Systems.
Binali Yıldırım ist ein Seefahrt-Experte, ehemaliger Leiter der Internationalen maritimen Organisation. Er wurde Recep Tayyip Erdoğan vorgestellt, als er für die ultra-nationalistische Partei Millî Görüş zum Bürgermeister von Istanbul gewählt wurde. 1994 zum Leiter der IDO (Meeres-Busse von Istanbul) ernannt, gründete er im Auftrag des Bürgermeisters und für sich selbst ein riesiges System von Veruntreuung von öffentlichen Geldern.
Seitdem hat die Yıldırım Familie ihr Glück gemacht. Der Sohn Erkan und die Tochter Bahar Büşra haben das Unternehmen Derin Denizcilik Taşımacılık Sanayi Ve Ticaret Limited Şirketi erstellt. Die Familie kontrolliert 17 Unternehmen, 28 Schiffe und Superyachten. Der kurdische Abgeordnete Sezgin Tannkulu (Republikanische Volkspartei CHP) hat der Groß-Versammlung vorgeschlagen, eine parlamentarische Untersuchungskommission zu erstellen, um die Bedingungen für dieses plötzliche Vermögen zu untersuchen, aber die Mehrheit (AKP) lehnte diesen Antrag ab.
Vor einem Monat veröffentlichte die türkische Presse Fotos von Erkan Yıldırım, als er in einem Casino in Singapur spielte. Der junge Mann hatte damals behauptet, in die Falle geraten zu sein und nicht Pokerspielen zu können.
Während der gerichtlichen Untersuchung von Dezember 2013 – die von der Regierung unterbrochen wurde -, war der Name Binali Yıldırım als der „Pate“ der um Präsident Erdoğan zentrierten Mafia-Organisation zitiert worden. Nach Ansicht der Richter übte Herr Yıldırım verschiedene Erpressungen gegen die wichtigsten Unternehmer des Landes aus.
Vor seinem Eintritt in die Politik war Recep Tayyip Erdoğan selbst der Anführer einer Bande in Istanbul.
What’s the perfect gift for a world leader who has everything? How about secretly buying a $25 million oil tanker for his family? That’s what Azeri billionaire Mübariz Mansimov did for Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the increasingly authoritarian Turkish president, back in 2008. The discovery, published Friday by the Black Sea,El Mundo and other outlets, is the result of a monthslong project by the European Investigative Collaboration network.
Mansimov became a Turkish citizen two years earlier and adopted a Turkish name, Mübariz Gurbanoglu, allegedly at Erdogan’s suggestion. After the deal was struck, his business dealings in Turkey took off, including lucrative contracts with state firms.
Mansimov is also “a friend” of Donald Trump and attended his presidential inauguration. “When the 39 floors of residential and office block Trump Towers opened in Istanbul in 2009, Mansimov was the first customer — buying eight apartments, including the penthouse,” according to the Black Sea.
The deal is complex but, in a nutshell, goes like this: Mansimov purchased a ship and opened a Maltese holding company for it in 2007. In October 2008, another company registered in the Isle of Man that belonged to Erdogan’s brother-in-law and his son purchased all shares for $25 million. The next day, that firm took out a $18.4 million loan arranged by Mansimov. Normal, so far. However, documents show that Mansimov pledged to pay off the entire seven-year loan plus interest in exchange for leasing rights through 2015 (the remaining $7 million of the purchase price was paid by a close personal friend of Erdogan for reasons unknown). Mansimov’s company, which controls two-thirds of Black Sea oil shipping, extended the leasing option through 2020 for $1.2 million a year. All told, the deal amounts to a $21.2 million cash transfer from Mansimov to Erdogan’s family. Despite having supposedly sold the ship to the close friend who paid $7 million in 2011, in three instances since then, Erdogan’s brother-in-law signed documents attesting to be the “sole beneficial owner” of the tanker.
Design: Corino Dragomir
The paper trail for this tangled web of transactions begins in the Malta Files, an investigation led by the EIC, based on a leaked cache of 150,000 documents from a Malta-based provider of legal, financial and corporate services, as well as a scraped version of the Malta Public Register of companies. In total, more than 50,000 companies are included. The project brought together 49 journalists from 13 media organizations in 16 countries, including The Intercept Brasil, L’Espresso, Le Soir, NRC, Der Spiegel, the Romanian Centre for Investigative Journalism / TheBlackSea.eu, Mediapart, Politiken, NewsWeek Serbia, El Mundo, Expresso, Dagens Nyheter, Malta Today, and Agência Sportlight.
Family business of Turkey Prime Minister heads offshore
The family of PM Binali Yıldırım has offshores with at least 140 million dollars in assets – including cargo ships and properties in the Netherlands
by Craig Shaw and Zeynep Sentek
24 May 2017
Ramadan 2009. Turkey’s Transport and Maritime Minister, Binali Yıldırım, was invited to break fast with the top brass of his country’s shipping business at a ceremony of the Barbaros Shipowners Association in Istanbul.
After the meal, Yıldırım took to the stage. His speech adopted a serious tone.
From now on any Turkish businesses owning ships, yachts or sea vessels that flew foreign flags would be “treated with suspicion” by the government, he said.
“We gave the [vessels] three months to change flags, free of charge,” Yıldırım added, referring to the requests of his Ministry. “Now they have no excuse. If they insist on not changing to the Turkish flag, we don’t see that [they have any] good intentions.“
The idea was to create a strong, national shipping fleet brandishing the Turkish colours and paying fees and taxes to the Turkish state.
Sat a few metres from Yıldırım was his 30-year-old son, Erkam.
His son might have felt embarrassment at his father’s speech, since at that time he was the registered owner of least one general cargo ship called the ‘City’, through the family’s offshore company in the Netherland Antilles. This freighter flew not the Turkish flag, but that of the Dutch Caribbean Islands.
Since then, the family’s ownership of foreign-flagged ships has grown, leading to the conclusion that Yıldırım’s speech was nothing less than hypocrisy.
An investigation into the Yıldırım family enterprise, part of the European Investigative Collaborations’ (EIC) #MaltaFiles, reveals that the family currently sits on shipping and related assets of well over 100 million Euro.
This consists of eleven foreign-flagged ships nestled in a network of secretive companies in Malta, the Netherlands, and the Netherlands Antilles – specifically now Curaçao, with more suspected in the Marshall Islands and Panama. At least four of the ships are financed with huge loans from Swiss and Turkish banks, including one part-owned by the Turkish state.
While some of the activities, especially in tax havens, remains opaque, The Black Sea discovered that Yıldırım’s son, daughter, uncle and nephews have purchased seven properties in the Netherlands, worth over two-and-a-half million dollars – all of which were paid for in cash.
The investigation also uncovered how the Yıldırıms used one of these Dutch companies to anonymously donate 600,000 Euro (1.75 million Turkish Lira) to the municipality of Pendik, near Istanbul, for a lavish new mosque.
EIC’s investigation traces how the family’s offshore shipping operation has grown in line with Binali Yıldırım’s towering career to become the second most powerful man in Turkey.
Family Business at the Heart of Government
Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım is no stranger to mixing his family’s fortunes with his role as a public servant. His career in shipping manager began in 1994 when he managed the Istanbul Fast Ferries Company (IDO), owned by the city. However the Istanbul bosses fired him in 2000 over revelations he awarded a contract to manage the ferries’ canteens to his uncle, Yılmaz Erence.
The scandal did little to harm Yıldırım’s career. Instead, he entered politics. Since 2001, he has been a key member of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP). When this fledgling movement won the 2002 Turkish elections, Yıldırım landed the job of Minister of Transport in the new government’s first ever cabinet. He held this job, with some interruptions, for almost 12 years.
Throughout his tenure, there has been speculation in the Turkish press and among lawmakers about his family’s business. Several times, Yıldırım refused to answer questions in parliament from opposition MPs demanding that he reveal details of how they make their money in shipping.
His only public statement is to a journalist from CNN Türk in March 2013, when he coyly explained that that he passed his shipping business to his children when he became a MP in 2002. But he would not go into detail.
PM Yildirim was fired in 2000 as an Istanbul ferry company manager for nepotism
How does a politician’s family build an asset portfolio of 140 million Euro in just over ten years?
The first traces of the Yıldırıms’ offshore adventures appear in Malta in 1998, via a company that alludes to the Turkish provenance of its shareholders – Tulip Maritime Limited.
This was headed by the Prime Minister’s Uncle Yılmaz and contacts from Turkey’s political and business world. These included Salih Zeki Çakır, a known ship-owner who employed Yıldırım briefly before his career in Government, and Ahmet Ergün, President Erdogan’s advisor from his days as Istanbul Mayor, as well as a former MP and high court judge, Abbas Gökçe.
Their first vessel was the Silver Fish, a cheap twenty-year-old cargo ship, which was soon broken apart.
Over the course of the 2000s, the team built up other companies and bought other ships. These are now mostly broken up or sold. By 2009, when Yıldırım delivered his impassioned speech promoting Turkish nationalism at the Ship Owners Association, the 4,000-tonne ‘City’ appears to be the only foreign asset. This was sold by Erkam two months later to their Panama company, North Bulkers S.A., before being broken up in 2011.
Since then the family’s shipping fortunes have acquired a formidable buying power. Six of the eleven ships identified by The Black Sea and EIC – worth between 1.9 million and 33 million Euro – appear to have been bought without any bank loans. If so, this suggests an enormous cache of funds exists in the Dutch operation, despite on paper being a money-losing business.
The eleven ships are owned by offshore companies in the Netherlands and Malta, countries with attractive tax benefits for the maritime industry.
In February this year, Binali Yıldırım – as Prime Minister – visited Malta to sign a refugee agreement with the local government.
If he had been so inclined, he might have taken the short journey to visit the offices of Mifsud and Sons Ltd in the capital, Valletta, and the nearby town of St Julian’s. This firm is owned by its namesake, Simon Mifsud, and represents the Yıldırım family’s latest shipping outfits in the country, called Dertel Shipping Limited, Nova Ponza Limited, Rory Malta Limited and Nova Warrior Limited.
The Yıldırıms took over the new companies on 9 June 2016, a little over two weeks after Erdogan appointed Yıldırım as Turkey’s Prime Minister.
The director of each of these is Süleyman Vural, Yıldırım’s nephew……..
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But this is minor league compared to the family’s Dutch operation – where the assets reach over 130 million dollars.
Landlords to Dutch dentist and shoemaker
Erkam Yıldırım has strong commercial ties in the Netherlands. These interests include modest properties and expensive ships.
When analysing the Yıldırım family’s offshore structure, EIC learned of a property company called Castillo Real Estate BV, based in the suburban city of Almere, across from Amsterdam on the Markermeer lake.
The Netherlands’s newest city is not the most likely place to find connections to the foreign elite. Here on Guamstraat is a dentist’s surgery – Tandartspraktijk de Compagnie. Any customer who has a wisdom tooth pulled out in this clinic is experiencing such pleasure in a building owned by the son of Turkey’s prime minister.
Turkish PM’s son gets teeth into Dutch real estate/ Dental Clinic, Almere, Holland (Credit/ Rien Zilvold, NRC)
Next door to the dentist, at Number 14, are the offices of Castillo Real Estate and Zealand Shipping – two of the family’s major companies.
In addition to the two buildings in Almere, Castillo owns four more properties in the country, a modest-sized apartment building in the centre of Schoonhoven, two houses on the Joseph Haydnlaan street in Utrecht, and a shoemaker’s shop in The Hague.
The six properties cost the family over 2.16 million Euro – and were all paid for in cash. The seventh is also in Almere and was purchased by Erkam personally for Zealand’s manager.
These are small pickings.
The real money in the operation here is on the waves: Zealand Shipping.
Set up in 2007, Zealand, housed next door to the dentist’s office, was run and owned by Erkam until June 2014, when it was bought by Holland Investments Cooperatif UA.
This change is cosmetic. Like with South Seas, company records in the Netherlands reveal Erkam as the man behind the new owner, and in charge of its 129.8 million USD assets.
Through Holland Investment Cooperatif UA, the company records show that family also owns 30 per cent of Q-Shipping BV based in Barendrecht. The partner in this venture is Abdülvahit Şimşek, a Turkish businessman who shares an office with the Yıldırıms in Istanbul.
Right now, Q-Shipping BV and its subsidiaries manage 20 ships – none of which sail under a Turkish flag.
Until last year, Zealand Shipping had ten ships flying the Dutch flag. In January 2016, a Turkish conglomerate close to the Erdogan government, Kolin Group, bought two of these vessels.
Today, Zealand Shipping and its subsidiaries still own eight vessels.
Every one of these boast names that display rampant Turkish nationalism – the Zealand Almere, MV Zealand Amsterdam and MV Zealand Rotterdam bought new in 2012 and 2013; the MV Zealand Ariane and MV Zealand Alexia, purchased second-hand throughout 2014; MV Zealand Beatrix, MV Zealand Delilah, MV Juliana bought new in 2010 and 2011.
The bill for these is not small. The Rotterdam, Amsterdam and Almere cost around 33 million Euro each to build. But Dutch records show that only the Amsterdam listed a debt, a loan of 33 million to the Kuveyt Türk Bank, a non-interest, Islamic financial institution part-owned by the Turkish government though the Directorate General of Foundations, whose director sits on the bank’s board.
Another loan taken out by Zealand is for the Juliana, a dry bulk carrier, which was financed by a 17.16 million Euros from the Yapı ve Kredi Bank in Turkey.
In total, three of the ships were constructed by Sefine, a shipbuilder close to Binali Yıldırım. Sefine was run until 2014 by Suat Hayri Aka, when he was forced by Turkish law to transfer his shares to his brother in order to to accept a government job.
What was this position? Undersecretary to the Ministry of Transport. This made him the deputy of Binali Yıldırım.
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has yet to say anything about Monday’s heinous, nihilistic suicide bombing at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England. According to current reporting, the attack has been claimed by ISIS and was carried out by a 22-year-old man born in Manchester to Libyan refugees.
But when Blair does speak, we can be certain he won’t mention one key fact: Before the 2003 invasion of Iraq led by the U.S. and U.K., he was forcefully and repeatedly warned by Britain’s intelligence services that it would lead to exactly this type of terrorist attack — and he concealed these warnings from the British people, instead claiming the war would reduce the risk of terrorism.
We know this because of the Chilcot Report, the seven-year-long British investigation of the Iraq War released in 2016. The report declassifies numerous internal government documents that illustrate the yawning chasm between what Blair was being told in private and his claims in public as he pushed for war.
On February 10, 2003, one month before the war began, the U.K.’s Joint Intelligence Committee — the key advisory body for the British Prime Minister on intelligence matters — issued a white paper titled “International Terrorism: War With Iraq.”
It began:
The threat from Al Qaida will increase at the onset of any military action against Iraq. They will target Coalition forces and other Western interests in the Middle East. Attacks against Western interests elsewhere are also likely, especially in the US and UK, for maximum impact. The worldwide threat from other Islamist terrorist groups and individuals will increase significantly.
And it concluded much the same way:
Al Qaida and associated groups will continue to represent by far the greatest terrorist threat to Western interests, and that threat will be heightened by military action against Iraq. The broader threat from Islamist terrorists will also increase in the event of war, reflecting intensified anti-US/anti-Western sentiment in the Muslim world, including among Muslim communities in the West. [emphasis added in both cases]
The same report concluded that Saddam Hussein’s Iraq “would aspire to conduct terrorist attacks against Coalition interests” only in the event of an invasion. Moreover, “authoritative reporting suggests that Iraqi Intelligence (DGI) has little reach or [terrorism] capability outside Iraq.”
Specifically regarding WMD terrorism, the JIC elsewhere judged that Iraq “would be unlikely to undertake or sponsor such terrorist attacks,” that the threat of it if Iraq were not invaded was “slight,” and that there was no “credible evidence of covert transfers of WMD-related technology and expertise to terrorist groups.”
Tony Blair’s case for war, as most clearly expressed in his March 18, 2003 remarks in the House of Commons, essentially turned all of this on its head. The possibility, Blair said, of terrorist groups obtaining WMD from a state like Iraq was “a real and present danger to Britain and its national security.”…………………
Das System ist uralt: Mit Kriminellen, Terroristen, einen Staats destabilisieren, die gewählte Staatsführung zu ermorden, wie im Balkan (siehe CIA Offizier Robert Baer) und mit vielen Millionen, die ordinärsten Kriminellen als Politiker einzusetzen. Fotos, Listen, von SAS und MI6 Agenten, welche geleakt wurden, geoutet wurden, bei Terroristen Aktionen, denn nur im Krieg liegt das Geschäft und in der erfundenen „Gefahr durch Terroristen“ , heute als „Kampf gegen den Terrorismus“ bekannt, denn der beste Feind ist der Feind, denn es nicht gibt! **
White Helms Teroristen auch von Berlin finanziert
Die „White Helms“, sind die aktuelle Kopf Abschneider und Terroristen Truppe des Britischen Geheimdienstes und der US Verbrecher, von dem Deutschen eingekauften Verbrecher Frank Walter Steinmeier, jährlich mit 7 Millionen € unterstützt, im Verbrechens Monopol der Deutschen KfW, des Volker Perthes, mit dem Plan: „The Day After“!
Man fand identisch wie bei „AMRI“ in Berlin, diesmal in Manchester, eine Kreditkarte des angeblichen Phantom Attentäter, der real direkt wie der Vater direkt für den MI6 schon seit über 20 Jahren arbeitet, inklusive Auftrags Mord für Geld gegen Gaddafi.
1992 wurde Ramadan Abedi vom MI6 zurückgeschickt und beteiligte sich an einem Komplott der Krone, welcher darauf abzielte Muamar Gadhafi zu ermorden. Nachdem die Operation entdeckt worden war, wurde er vom MI6 ausgeschleust und in das Vereinigte Königreich verbracht, wo er politisches Asyl erhielt. Er siedelte sich 1999 in Whalley Range (Süden von Manchester) an, wo die kleine Gemeinschaft libyscher Islamisten des Vereinigten Königreiches residiert.
1994 kehrte Ramadan Abedi im Auftrag des MI6 erneut nach Libyen zurück. Er beteiligte sich Ende 1995 an der Gründung der „Groupe islamiste combattant en Libye“ (GICL) [Islamistische Kampfgruppe in Libyen], lokaler Ableger von Al-Kaida an der Seite von Abdelhakim Belhaj. Die GICL wurde schließlich vom MI6 gegen ein Entgelt von 100.000 Pfund Sterlling mit der Ermordung von Muamar Gadhafi beauftragt. Diese Operation, welche auch scheiterte, provozierte heftige Debatten innerhalb der Dienste Ihrer Majestät, sowie den Rücktritt unseres Freundes David Shayler.
Zahlreiche „alte Mitglieder“ des GICL haben ebenfalls in Whalley Range gelebt, darunter der Freund der Abedi, Abd al-Baset Azzuz. Letzterer schließt sich 2009 Al-Kaida in Pakistan an und wird einer der engsten Mitarbeiter von Chef Ayman al-Zawahiri. 2011 beteiligt er sich am Boden an der Operation der NATO gegen Libyen. Am 11. September 2012 dirigiert er die Operation gegen den Botschafter der USA in Libyen, J.Christopher Stevens, ermordet in Benghazi. Er wird in der Türkei verhaftet und im Dezember 2014 an die USA ausgeliefert, wo er auf seinen Prozess wartet.
Es ist unbekannt, ob Ramadan Abedi 2005 die Mitglieder des GICL aufgesucht hat um Al-Kaida im Irak bilden und ob er, 2011, an der Operation des MI6 des „Arabischen Frühlings“ teilgenommen hat, genauso wie seine Unterstützung des GICL am Boden als Verbindungsmann zur NATO. Wie auch immer, er ließ sich nach dem Sturz Gaddafis in Libyen nieder und holte seine Familie nach, wobei er seine Enkel im Haus der Familie von Whalley Range beließ.
Nach Aussage des ehemaligen spanischen Premierministers, Jose Maria Aznar, war Abdelhakim Belhaj an den Attentaten von Madrid am 11. März 2004 beteiligt. Später wurde er vom CIA heimlich in Malaisia verhaftet und nach Libyen transferiert, wo er gefoltert wird, nicht von libyschen oder US Beamten, sondern von Agenten des MI6. Er wurde schließlich nach dem Abkommen zwischen Saif el-Islam, Gaddafi und den Dhihadisten frei gelassen. Während des Libyen-Krieges kommt Belhaj, der sich in Katar im Exil befindet, in einem Jet des Emir’s zurück nach Libyen und befehligt in direkter Verbindung mit der NATO die Bodenoperationen. Am 28. Juli 2011 organisiert er die Ermordung General Abdelfattah Yunes, der vorgibt sich zu den „Rebellen“ geschlagen zu haben, dem er aber vorwarf in den 90er Jahren den Kampf gegen die GICL befohlen zu haben. Im September 2011 wird Belhaj von der NATO zum Militärgouverneur von Tripolis ernannt. 2012 gründet er, sekundiert vom Irländer Mahdi al-Haraii, die Freie syrische Armee und kommt nach Libyen zurück. Am 2. Mai 2014 wird er im Quay d’Orsay (Regierungssitz in Paris) empfangen. Im Dezember 2013, nach der Entdeckung eines Briefes seines ehemaligen Chefs vom MI6 in den Archiven der arabisch libyschen Jamahiriya, strengt er in London einen Prozess gegen das Vereinigte Königreich an, weil es ihn neun Jahre zuvor entführt und gefoltert hat. Die britischen Geheimdienste hören daraufhin seine Anwälte illegal ab und sind schließlich gezwungen diese Aufzeichnungen vernichten zu müssen. Nach dem Generalstaatsanwalt von Ägypten, Hichem Baraket, wird Belhaj im Mai 2015 der Haupt-Führer von Daesh in Nord-Afrika; eine Information, die von Interpol übernommen wird. Belhaj richtet für Daesh in Libyen drei Trainingslager, in Derna (im ehemaligen Besitz von Abd al-Baset Azzuz), in Syrte und in Sebrata ein. Im Oktober 2016 strengt er einen neuen Prozess in London an in Bezug auf seine Entführung und die erlittenen Foltern, dieses mal direkt gegen den Direktor des MI6, Sir Mark Allen.
Daesh hat das Attentat von Manchester für sich reklamiert, aber ohne dabei Salman Abedi als „Märtyrer“ zu qualifizieren. Nach dem Attentat hat Ramadan Abedi, gegenüber Journalisten, die ihn anriefen, seine strikte Ablehnung des Dihad bekräftigt. Gleichfalls hat er versichert, dass sein Sohn beabsichtigte den Monat des Ramadan mit ihm in Libyen zu verbringen und dass er überzeugt von seiner Unschuld sei. Auf Bitte des Vereinigen Königreiches wurde er von einer libyschen Polizei zur Ordnung gerufen.
Ramadan Abedi, der Vater von Salman Abedi, kämpfte selbst in einer islamistischen Terrorgruppe – damals noch mit dem Segen der britischen Regierung, Tripoli, Libyen 24. Mai 2017.
Ramadan Abedi, der Vater des Selbstmordbombers von Manchester, ist in Libyen verhaftet worden. Abedi Senior war früher auch Mitglied in der Libysch-islamischen Kampfgruppe. Im Jahr 2007 trat sie Al-Kaida bei. Während des libyschen Bürgerkrieges kämpfte er in einer Gruppe, die sich die „Manchester Fighters“ nannte.
Zu Beginn der Revolution seien damals ¾ der Kämpfer aus Manchester gewesen. Die britische Regierung wusste davon und ließ sie gewähren. Ein weiterer von Abedis Söhnen ist wegen Verbindungen zum islamischen Staat ebenfalls verhaftet worden. Medien wie die BBC und der Guardian haben bei den Gegnern Gaddafis grundsätzlich von den „Rebellen“ gesprochen. Nach der Explosion in der Manchester-Arena, heißen sie nun doch wieder Terroristen.
We have written extensively for months that the American neocons assisted by the British and to a lesser extent few EU vassal states have begun regime change across the Balkans to ensure puppet Governments are installed in every country.
Leadership in Terror Operations and Terror: Mi6 – SAS worldwhite Teacher for the Islam terrorist
‚Al Qaeda Bomber Worked For UK Intelligence‘ —————————————————————————(News SKY) An al Qaeda „assassin“ accused of bombing Christian churches anda luxury hotel in Pakistan was working for British intelligence at the sametime, according to leaked files.The claim about Adil Hadi al Jazairi Bin Hamlili is made in secret reportson detainees at the US military’s Guantanamo Bay prison camp obtained bythe whistleblowing website WikiLeaks(a) http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Wikieaks-Files-Al-Qaeda-Operative-Accused-Of-Bombings-In-Pakistan-Worked-For-British-Intelligence/Article/201104415979146?lid=ARTICLE_15979146_WikieaksFiles:AlQaedaOperativeAccusedOfBombingsInPakistanWorkedForBritis ( b) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13191959 British military investigator found hung in Basraby Julie HylandOctober 22, 2005World Socialist Web SiteEmail this article to a friendPrint this articleA senior British military police officer in Iraq, Captain Ken Masters, was found hung in his military accommodation in Basra on October 15.Masters was commander of the Royal Military Polices Special Investigations Branch (SIB), charged with investigating allegations of mistreatment of Iraqi civilians by British soldiers.
According to the Independent newspaper, in this capacity Masters had examined almost every single serious allegation of abuse of Iraqi civilians by British troops, including the cases of the fusiliers convicted of abusing prisoners at Camp Breadbasket near Basra and a paratrooper who has been charged in connection with the death of Baha Mousa, a hotel receptionist.In recent weeks, Masters was thought to have been involved in the investigation into the events of September 19, when Iraqi police arrested two British undercover Special Air Service (SAS) officers in Basra.http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=HYL20051022&articleId=1132
SAS – Basra Rescue
On the 19th of September, 2005, 2 SAS soldiers were on a surveillance operation, in a unmarked car, close to Jamiyat Police station in Basra. The SAS had been tasked with investigating claims that the Iraqi Police had been torturing prisoners in the station. A particular senior Police officer was suspected and it was he who the 2-man SAS team were watching. (note: some sources indicate that the surveillance operation was actually carried out by members of the Special Reconnaissance Regiment(SRR))
Just before the team were about to end the surveillance mission, they were confronted by several plains-clothes Iraqi policemen. A gunfight ensued during which at least one Iraqi policeman was wounded.
The SAS men tried to reach an emergency rendezvous point (ERV) but were stopped by uniformed Police who were investigating the gunfire. The SAS chose to surrender at this point. They identified themselves as British military and they were taken into custody.
Photo released to the media showing the 2 captured British soldiers and their weapons.
It was reported that the 2 soldiers were disguised as Arabs and that weapons and communications gear was found in their car. Pictures released to the media showed C8 CQB carbines, a mini para, a LAW rocket launcher, radios and medical kit. These items causes some to speculate the SAS were really on a sabotage mission, posing as terrorists and acting as agent provocateurs. Some even went as far as to suggest that their mission was to plant bombs in order to create a ‚false-flag‘ terrorist attack. Others claim the weapons and gear are simply the standard kit carried on UKSF operationsin Iraq, and are designed to cover a range of possible eventualities.
The 2 soldiers were taken to Jamait Police station. This was a concern for the British military as it was suspected that the local police had been infiltrated by various militia elements. An attempt to negotiate the men’s release had failed and when the British became aware that the 2 captured soldiers had been moved to a nearby house and were soon to be handed over to the militia, a rescue plan was put into place.
As British Warrior APCs surrounded the Police station, an angry crowd attacked them with Molotov cocktails, setting at least one APC alight. The APCs eventually smashed through the walls of the Police compound resulting in the escape of several prisoners.
With events around the station acting as a diversion, an SAS team stormed the house where their colleagues were being held. It was later reported that no Iraqis had been injured during the SAS operation although several had been killed or injured during the Warrior assault on the Police station.
**update** A May 1st, 2009 newspaper article features an interview with one of the 2 SAS men captured in 2005. In the article, the SAS man explains that the circumstances of his capture. He reveals that he and his fellow SAS operator had been returning from escorting 2 MI6 operatives to the Kuwaiti border when their car broke down in the desert. The pair hijacked a taxi and drove to Basra where they ran into a Police checkpoint where they were arrested. (see link below for full story)
The two freed SAS troopers had been arrested in Basra while patrolling under-cover in Arab clothes
By Adrian Blomfield in Baghdad and Thomas Harding12:05AM BST 20 Sep 2005
Two SAS soldiers were freed from a jail in Basra under the watch of British armoured vehicles last night a few hours after they were seized by Iraqis during the worst riots in Iraq’s second city in two years.
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Troops free SAS men free from jail
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The soldiers who escaped from the burning Warrior were said to be in a stable condition in hospital
British SAS Agent Provocateurs Exposed in Basra by SIGNS OF THE TIMES(PHOTO: The REAL face of „Islamic Terror“ – Two SAS agents caught carrying out a false flag terror attack in Basra, Iraq September 20th 2005.)There is a saying of sorts that „if you are going to do something, do it well“, and given the serious consequences, nowhere is that more true than when you plan to engage in criminal activity.Today in Basra, Southern Iraq, two members of the British SAS (Special Ops) were caught, ‚in flagrante‘ as it were, dressed in full „Arab garb“, driving a carfull of explosives and shooting and killing two official Iraqi policemen.This fact, finally reported by the mainstream press, goes to the very heart of and proves accurate much of what we have been saying on the Signs of the Times page for several years.The following are facts, indisputable by all but the most self-deluded:Number 1:The US and British invasion of Iraq was NOT for the purpose of bringing „freedom and democracy“ to the Iraqi people, but rather for the purpose of securing Iraq’s oil resources for the US and British governments and expanding their control over the greater Middle East.
The SAS is training Libyan troops, it emerged last night.
The elite special forces unit has been passing on its combat expertise to Colonel Gaddafis soldiers for the last six months.
The move, another sign of the growing relationship between the UK and the oil-rich country, has appalled military veterans who recall how Libya supplied the Provisional IRA with guns and explosives to kill British soldiers.
Though the Ministry of Defence refused to comment, the Foreign Office confirmed last night: We have got an ongoing co-operation with Libya in the field of defence.
The spokesman denied there was any connection with the release of Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Al-Megrahi from a Scottish prison on compassionate grounds last month.
The first moves towards setting up the training agreement are believed to have begun after Tony Blair visited Libya as Prime Minister in 2004.
However, the deal was only finalised and officially approved by Gordon Brown earlier this year. It is believed that a team of between four and 14 men is training the Libyans in counter-terrorism techniques, including covert surveillance.
But not everything that the SAS has learned from fighting Islamic terrorism in Iraq and Afghanistan is expected to be passed on.
The agreement is bound to devastate families of the Lockerbie victims and further damage relations with America.
U.S. President Barack Obama told Mr Brown earlier this week of his disappointment over Megrahis release.
Senior Army officers have called it morally wrong that they have to train troops in a country which once armed the terrorists they were fighting.
A Special Air Service source told The Daily Telegraph: A small SAS training team have been doing it for the last six months as part of this cosy deal with the Libyans.
From our perspective we cannot see it as part of anything else other than the Megrahi deal. Read full article
International Criminal Court Investigates Human Rights Abuses by British Forces in Iraq
Samuel Oakford — 7:23 p.m.
The Chilcot Report is done, but allegations of systemic abuse by British soldiers are currently being considered by a domestic investigative body as well as the International Criminal Court.
Kurz vor seinem frühen Tod sagte der britische Aussenminister Robin Cook dem Parlament, dass Al Kaida nicht wirklich eine Terrorgruppe sei, sondern eine Datenbank von internationalen Freiheitskämpfern Mujaheddin und Waffenschmugglern die von der CIA ausgewählt, geführt, ausgebildet und finanziert wurde, um Kämpfer, Waffen und Geld in das von der Sowjetunion besetzte Afghanistan zu schleusen.
Hier ein Bericht aus dem indischen Journal World Affairs, in dem der Geheimagent des Französischen Militärs Pierre-Henri Bunel von seinen Erfahrungen erzählt, welche die Aussage von Robin Cook bestätigt:
Ein plumpe Fälschung, welche nachträglich u.a. gestern von Reutern, dem Indepentent usw. enttarnt wurde und leicht erkennbar war, weil das Gesicht zu jung und real bereits im Januar 2009 veröffentlicht wurde. diese Website, enttarnte die Lüge als Erste: http://whatreallyhappened.com
Wenn man den brasilianischen Medien glaubt, so ist am vergangenen Mittwoch, dem 17. Mai, über der Hauptstadt Brasília eine “Atombombe” explodiert. Mit dieser stürmischen Überschrift bezogen sich verschiedene Tageszeitungen und Nachrichtenportale im Internet auf die in der Tat hochbrisante Beichte der Gebrüder Joesley und Wesley Batista gegenüber Richter Edson Fachin, Berichterstatter der Korruptionsermittlungen von „Unternehmen Waschanlage“ beim Obersten Gerichtshof. Ein Bericht von Frederico Füllgraf. weiterlesen
Rüstungs Geschäfte, EADS, Frankreich, der vollkommen korrupte CIA Agent verwandt mit dem Betrüger Frank Wisner, und Bestechungs ohne Ende, wie die Deutschen U-Boot Geschäfte mit Steinmeier, Angela Merkel und Kollegen.
French prosecutors are investigating whether DCNS, an industrial group that specializes in naval defence and energy, paid a bribe as part of a deal to sell five submarines worth US$7.5 billion to Brazil, Reuters reported Sunday.
French Submarine (Photo: Kelvin Edwards)An investigation began last October into the „corruption of foreign officials,“ according to French daily, Le Parisien, as part of a larger inquiry by Brazilian federal police dubbed Lava Jato, or Car Wash. Begun in 2014, that inquiry has looked into bribery suspicions involving hundreds of politicians and public figures.
DCNS, which is 62 percent state owned, and 35 percent owned by French defense electronics group Thales SA, denies any wrongdoing.
„We have nothing to do with the Lava Jato case. DCNS scrupulously respects the rules of law around the world,“ a spokesman told Reuters.
Signed when French President Nicolas Sarkozy visited his Brazilian counterpart in late 2008, the contract covers the delivery of four Scorpene-class attack submarines, construction of a nuclear-powered submarine and provision of a naval dockyard in Brazil.
Prosecutors are investigating possible corruption ties between the DCNS contract and Rio de Janeiro’s winning bid to host the 2016 Olympic Games which took place at the same time. The probe is developing as DCNS’s Brazilian partner, Odebrecht, is alleged to have bribed politicians to win public contracts.
Last year, Marcelo Odebrecht, the company’s former chief executive, was sentenced to 19 years in prison for corruption and money laundering.
Man will wie bei allen Groß Projekten beteiligt sein, agiert nur noch als Erpresser Kartell, wo Milliarden EU Gelder verschwinden. siehe TAP-Gas Pipeline, South-Stream, Windparks. Willkommene Investoren sind nur Verbrecher Staaten, wie Aserbeischan, VAE, Katar, die Saudis, Georgische und Ukrainische Mafia und Gelder der Drogen Kartelle.
Pakistan ist heute ebenso der neuen „Silk Road“ beigetreten, also Millionen werden wohl an dem Projekt arbeiten, wo die wertlosen US Staatsanleihen eingesetzt werden.
The Southern Gas Corridor, a system of mega-pipelines meant to bring gas from the Caspian region to Europe, is unnecessary in light of gas demand projections but will boost Azerbaijan’s dictatorial regime and cause damage to local communities and the environment.
Die Regierung in Beijing will in Asien, Ostafrika und Südosteuropa mit viel Geld Entwicklungskorridore schaffen
Chinas Jahrhundertprojekt
15.05.2017
BEIJING/BERLIN
(Eigener Bericht) – Berlin und Brüssel legen China bei seinem Großprojekt „Neue Seidenstraße“ Steine in den Weg. Am gestrigen Sonntag hat die EU sich geweigert, auf einem internationalen Gipfeltreffen in Beijing mit Vertretern aus mehr als 100 Staaten, darunter 29 Staats- und Regierungschefs, eine Erklärung zu dem Projekt zu unterzeichnen. Für das Vorhaben, das den Ausbau von Verkehrskorridoren aus Ostasien nach Europa auf dem Land- sowie auf dem Seeweg vorsieht, stellt Beijing Billionensummen bereit; es gilt als eine der bedeutendsten ökonomisch-strategischen Unternehmungen der Gegenwart. An einem vergleichbaren, schon 1993 gestarteten Projekt sind Berlin und Brüssel gescheitert. China zielt darauf, neue Absatzmärkte für seine Wirtschaft zu erschließen, aber auch instabile Regionen im Westen der Volksrepublik zu stabilisieren; zudem soll die „Neue Seidenstraße“ Europa und Asien ökonomisch eng verknüpfen – ohne die Vereinigten Staaten. Diese stehen dem Vorhaben deshalb ablehnend gegenüber. Deutsche Interessen sind widersprüchlich: Während Wirtschaftskreise von einer intensiveren Kooperation neue Profite erhoffen, steht der mit dem Projekt verbundene weitere Aufstieg Chinas den machtpolitischen Interessen Deutschlands und der EU entgegen. Berlin und Brüssel verhalten sich entsprechend ambivalent.
Ein Billionenprojekt
Die „Neue Seidenstraße“, offiziell meist „One Belt, One Road“ („Ein Gürtel, eine Straße“) genannt, ist gegenwärtig eines der bedeutendsten ökonomisch-strategischen Großprojekte der Welt. Der chinesische Staatspräsident Xi Jinping hat es im September und im Oktober 2013 bei Besuchen in Kasachstan und in Indonesien offiziell bekanntgemacht. „One Belt, One Road“ sieht vor, die Verkehrskorridore aus China in Richtung Westen systematisch auszubauen: zum einen auf dem Landweg über Zentralasien und Russland bzw. Iran/Türkei bis nach Europa; zum anderen auf dem Seeweg durch das Südchinesische Meer, die Straße von Malakka und den Indischen Ozean bis nach Ostafrika bzw. durch das Rote Meer und den Suezkanal ins Mittelmeer. Das Projekt, das unter anderem Straßen, Schienennetze, Hochgeschwindigkeitszüge und Häfen umfasst, soll den Handel beleben und den beteiligten Staaten dadurch ökonomisch Aufschwung bringen. Die Dimensionen sind gewaltig: Inzwischen haben sich der „Neuen Seidenstraße“ mehr als 65 Staaten angeschlossen, die rund ein Drittel der globalen Wirtschaftsleistung erbringen und mit 4,4 Milliarden Menschen mehr als die Hälfte der Weltbevölkerung stellen. Beijing hat bislang Kredite in Höhe von mehr als 800 Milliarden Euro vergeben; langfristig wird mit einem noch viel höheren Volumen gerechnet.
Eurasien
Beijing verfolgt mit „One Belt, One Road“ mehrere Ziele. Zum einen geht es darum, Absatzmärkte für chinesische Unternehmen zu erschließen und auszubauen. Zum anderen sollen wirtschaftlich schwache, instabile Regionen insbesondere in Westchina und in Zentralasien ökonomisch gestärkt werden, um sie langfristig auch politisch zu konsolidieren; damit könnten für die Volksrepublik gefährliche Unruheherde etwa in der chinesischen Region Xinjiang sowie in den westlich an China grenzenden Ländern beseitigt werden. Überlagert wird all dies von der Tatsache, dass die „Neue Seidenstraße“ auf lange Sicht geeignet ist, Europa und Asien ökonomisch eng zu verknüpfen – und zwar ohne der Vereinigten Staaten. Washington steht dem Projekt deshalb ablehnend gegenüber. Beijing wiederum bietet den teilnehmenden Staaten eine planerische Partizipation auf sämtlichen Ebenen bis hin zu Gipfeltreffen an; die aktuelle Zusammenkunft in der chinesischen Hauptstadt ist ein Beispiel. Gleichzeitig verspricht es, seiner Praxis in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten folgend, den Verzicht auf politische Einmischung in die inneren Angelegenheiten der kooperierenden Staaten. „One Belt, One Road“ soll damit nicht zuletzt die Abkehr von der militärischen Dominanz der westlichen Mächte mit sich bringen.[1] Das Vorhaben wird in Beijing als „Jahrhundertprojekt“ eingestuft.
Machtverschiebungen
Wie kaum ein anderes Projekt verdeutlicht die „Neue Seidenstraße“ die Verschiebung der globalen Machtzentren weg vom Atlantik hin zum Pazifik. Vor fast einem Vierteljahrhundert, im Mai 1993, hatte die EU in der politischen Aufschwungphase nach dem Ende des Kalten Kriegs auf deutsches Drängen ein Vorhaben gestartet, dessen Ziel es war, die Transportkorridore zwischen Europa und Asien auszubauen. Das EU-Projekt TRACECA (Transport Corridor Europe-Caucasus-Asia), das ebenfalls „Neue Seidenstraße“ genannt wurde, zielte darauf ab, die Verkehrswege aus Europa nach Zentralasien sowie womöglich weiter nach China auszubauen – und zwar zwischen Russland und Iran hindurch, also über den Kaukasus und durch das Kaspische Becken; es ging darum, deutsch-europäischen Konzernen Zugänge zu den zentralasiatischen Rohstoffen und zum ostasiatischen Markt zu öffnen, die weder über russisches noch über iranisches Territorium führten. TRACECA, das von Berlin und Brüssel zeitweise mit großspuriger PR vorangetrieben wurde [2], hat keine nennenswerten Ergebnisse hervorgebracht. Unter chinesischer Führung hingegen schreitet der Ausbau der eurasischen Verkehrskorridore, an dem Deutschland und die EU gescheitert sind, nun mit bemerkenswertem Tempo voran.
Wirtschaftsboom
„One Belt, One Road“ besitzt für das bundesdeutsche Establishment eine ambivalente Bedeutung. Einerseits haben deutsche Unternehmen ein starkes Interesse daran, den Austausch mit China, dem wichtigsten Handelspartner der Bundesrepublik, weiter auszubauen. Im vergangenen Jahr hieß es deshalb auf einer hochkarätig besetzten Wirtschaftskonferenz in Berlin, die „Neue Seidenstraße“ werde „mehrheitlich positiv eingeschätzt“.[3] Der konkrete Nutzen lässt sich an Einzelbeispielen verdeutlichen. So profitiert der Duisburger Hafen, der größte Binnenhafen Europas, stark davon, dass dort inzwischen 25 Containerzüge pro Woche aus China ankommen; es sollen noch viel mehr werden. Die Fahrtzeit ist bereits jetzt mit 16 bis 19 Tagen nur noch halb so lang wie die Fahrt auf dem Seeweg; sie soll mit dem Ausbau der Strecke auf acht Tage reduziert werden. Duisburg könne „Chinas Tor zu Europa“ werden, heißt es bereits.[4] Mittlerweile nutzen Konzerne wie BMW die Option, Autoteile per Zug aus Deutschland in chinesische Fabriken zu transportieren; die Deutsche Bahn AG führt solche Transporte gewinnbringend durch. Das ökonomische Interesse hat dazu geführt, dass die Bundesrepublik sich an der Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) beteiligt, die zur Jahreswende 2015/16 in Beijing eröffnet wurde und zu den Hauptfinanziers von „One Belt, One Road“ zählt.
Rivalitäten
Andererseits bringt „One Belt, One Road“ neue Konkurrenzlagen in Europa hervor. Bekanntestes Beispiel ist, dass die „China Ocean Shipping Company“ (COSCO) 2009 begonnen hat, Anteile am Hafen von Piräus zu übernehmen; mittlerweile verfügt sie dort über starken Einfluss.[5] Piräus ist für Schiffe, die aus China kommen und durch den Suezkanal ins Mittelmeer einfahren, die erste Anlaufmöglichkeit in Europa; Beijing hat den dortigen Hafen deshalb zu einem Ziel der Seeroute der „Neuen Seidenstraße“ gewählt. Inzwischen haben Unternehmen wie etwa HP, die Computer in China endmontieren, ihren Europavertrieb aus anderen Hafenstädten wie Rotterdam nach Piräus verlegt; sogar aus dem Hamburger Hafen sind jetzt Konkurrenzängste wahrzunehmen. Darüber hinaus hat Beijing begonnen, nicht nur in Griechenland, sondern auch in anderen Staaten Ost- und Südosteuropas Infrastrukturmaßnahmen anzuschieben, die geeignet sind, Chinas dortigen Einfluss deutlich zu vergrößern – und den deutschen Einfluss in Europa zu mindern. Dies läuft dem machtpolitischen Interesse Berlins ebenso zuwider wie die Tatsache, dass die „Neue Seidenstraße“ geeignet ist, Chinas Einfluss auch in der Weltpolitik weiter zu stärken; der große Rivale steigt ungebrochen auf.
Doppelstrategie
Entsprechend ambivalent verhalten sich Berlin und Brüssel aktuell in Beijing. Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel ist zu dem heute zu Ende gehenden Gipfeltreffen eingeladen worden, jedoch nicht angereist, um es nicht weiter aufzuwerten; in abwertender Absicht heißt es in deutschen Medien, in der chinesischen Hauptstadt finde derzeit ein Gipfeltreffen mit „Putin und Erdoğan“, den aktuellen Hauptfeindbildern Berlins, statt. Deutsche Wirtschaftsinteressen werden in Beijing zwar von Bundeswirtschaftsministerin Brigitte Zypries vertreten. Zugleich hat die EU aber erklärt, die geplante gemeinsame Erklärung nicht unterzeichnen zu wollen. Vorgeschoben werden Differenzen bei Umwelt- und Sozialstandards.[6] Tatsächlich droht Brüssel damit Beijings Großprojekt zumindest punktuell zu schädigen. Diese Doppelstrategie macht es möglich, wirtschaftlichen Profit mit dem Bemühen zu vereinen, China politisch einzudämmen – und auf diese Weise ökonomische wie machtpolitische Interessenten in Deutschland gleichermaßen zu bedienen.
We have written extensively for months that the American neocons assisted by the British and to a lesser extent few EU vassal states have begun regime change across the Balkans to ensure puppet Governments are installed in every country.
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